Friday, January 28, 2011

Cormac McCarthy: No Country For Old Men

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It is rather dubious to write something about you've read a month ago, right? But I'm still doing it. I read Cormac McCarthy's ...
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Monday, January 24, 2011

Where's my Michael Koryta?

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I ordered some books recently from the web. One of them was A Welcome Grave by Michael Koryta about whom I've read good things. The bo...
Tuesday, January 18, 2011

Tuesday's Overlooked Film: The Murder Maze

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Todd Mason will start hosting a series of blog posts from around the world profiling forgotten and overlooked films. I was going to say som...
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Friday, January 14, 2011

Friday's Forgotten Book: Zane Grey Western Magazine, August 1970

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When I was sick last week, I read a couple of stories from an old mag a friend of mine had sent me. It was an August, 1970 issue of Zane Gre...
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Wednesday, January 12, 2011

Devil Thumbs a Ride (1947)

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As the last treat of their great film noir series, the Finnish Broadcasting Association showed a Felix E. Feist double bill: first his best...
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Tuesday, January 11, 2011

Donald Westlake's The Hook

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A series of short posts starts from here, just in order to catch up with what's happened and what's going on. I promised to write so...
Monday, January 10, 2011

The best crime novels of 2010

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In lieu of a better post (I've been sick and now gotta catch up my work)  here's the link to the Spinetingler Magazine's lists ...
Tuesday, January 04, 2011

My 2010

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I can't compete with James Reasoner when it comes to profilicity: he wrote over 6000 pages of fiction last year . That amounts to over ...
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Monday, January 03, 2011

And now for something completely different...

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Here's a link to the very stylish latex underwear and lingerie show by the Atsuko Kudo label held recently. I think this stuff is very s...
Sunday, January 02, 2011

Jason Starr's Tough Luck

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As I said in an earlier post, I was going to write about Jason Starr's Tough Luck . As you probably know by now, I'm a stout admire...
Saturday, January 01, 2011

Happy New Year!

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I'm being a bit of a bore here, but this is just a post to tell you that I'll be writing about these things later on: Donald Westlak...
Friday, December 24, 2010

Wishes for Merry Christmas...

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...with this nice pulp-styled boxer shorts package I discovered while I was shopping for Christmas gifts. I thought for a minute I'd buy...
Thursday, December 23, 2010

Cuban film The First Charge of Machete

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Before my Christmas wishes I wanted to say something short about a stupendous film I recently saw: it's a Cuban agit prop/art film The F...
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Tuesday, December 21, 2010

The new issue of Isku out now!

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Here's a link to the latest issue of Isku, my crime fiction webzine. Check it out: stories by Harry Shannon, Morris Hershman, Rob Kantne...
Thursday, December 16, 2010

Dave White: When One Man Dies & The Evil That Men Do

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I've said earlier that I really don't care about the recent private eye characters whose problems are worse than their clients. The...
Friday, December 10, 2010

Hard Case Western

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I've said it as a comment to a blog post here and there, but let's make it official: besides their great Hard Case Crime line, Charl...
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Monday, December 06, 2010

My essential noir

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The Psycho Noir blog has posted fascinating lists of essential noir novels by some writers and other noir aficionados. You can see the lists...
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Saturday, December 04, 2010

The new issue of my fanzine, Pulp

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I just finished editing and publishing the newest issue of my fanzine, Pulp, that's been an on-line publication only for the past few mo...
Wednesday, December 01, 2010

The Narrow Margin and some other film noirs

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I've watched all the film noirs the Finnish Broadcasting Association has been showing in the theme series for the past few months, but f...
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Thursday, November 25, 2010

Gordon Davis's AKA Leonard Levinson's Death Train

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It's not Friday, but I think this could be linked to Patti Abbott's Friday's Forgotten Books series of blog posts. I wrote ea...
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